PHILADELPHIA – The guy who leads the National League in extra-base hits isn’t sculpted like Giancarlo Stanton, doesn’t tower over the room like Big Papi, doesn’t intimidate you in the box like Miguel Cabrera.

No, the guy who leads the National League in extra-base hits is 5-foot-8.

“The first time I met him,” says the Braves’ Ryan Flaherty, “I thought he was the bat boy. Seriously.”

Well, Ozhaino (Ozzie) Albies can handle a bat, all right. But he’s no bat boy. He has cranked out 31 extra-base hits in the Braves’ first 47 games. And that’s the most by a Brave at this stage of any season since (wait for it) Hank Aaron, in 1959. Yep. Really.

And have we mentioned that Ozzie Albies is 5-foot-8? No player his size has led either league in extra-base hits since Stuffy Stirnweiss, in 1945. Yep. Really.

Oh, and have we also mentioned that Ozzie Albies is 21 years old? No one that young has led either league in extra-base hits...